After the popularity of social media and its Display Pictures, most of us have become photo buffs. So, let us go through a short history of photography.
It is believed that idea of photography was first propounded by an Arab physicist, Ibn al Haytham. Haytham made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular. His most influential work being Kitāb al-Manāẓir (كتاب المناظر, “Book of Optics”), written during 1011–1021 C.E, is survived in Latin.
Joseph Niepce developed the camera obscura and took the first photo with it in 1814, it took 8 hours of light exposure to make a picture, and the picture faded with time. In 1837, Louis Daguerre invented a new way to take pictures with which a picture was taken in 30 minute light exposure.
However, in December 1975, an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson, created new history in photography by developing world’s first digital camera. It weighed 8 pounds and took 23 seconds to create a photograph.
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In 1991, kodak launched a commercial digital single-lens reflex camera (also called a digital DSLR) which changed the course of photography to where it is now. DSLR takes a nano second to create an image.
Just for the record, the camera phone technology was first used in Japan in the same year (1991), but it quickly spread around the world.
Below is the picture of first ever Digital Camera.
